Centre for Fine Art Research - Research Groups
Contact
Group Coordinator: Dr. Susan May
Members:
Dr Jonathan Day, Duncan Flatman, Dr Michael Harrison, Andrew Kulman, Dr Vicky Ley, Dr Susan May, Dr Heike Neumeister, Prof George Noszlopy, Prof Kenneth Quickenden, Ruth Spencer, Dr Sian Vaughan, Fiona Waterhouse, Dr Peter Windows
The Historical and Archival Research Group is a forum for staff and students who have a common interest in the historical, theoretical, contextual and museological aspects of art, architecture, craft and design. The group includes scholars of national and international standing. Interdisciplinary in their approach, members have developed specialisms which range across fields including: the late-medieval and European Renaissance; issues of patronage, style and iconography; Roman, Florentine, Sienese, Paduan and Venetian humanism; ritual and church history; landscape in art; British art, architecture, town planning and design from the eighteenth century to date; Franco-British modernism; the history of art collecting and the American 'Gilded Age'; public monuments and sculpture; Japanese domestic architecture from the Edo period to World War II; open air museums; modern design, design discourse and gender issues, and contemporary international jewellery and fine metalwork. The group has attracted a wide range of funding and has organised and contributed to national and international conferences in Birmingham and elsewhere.
To name but a few items from its impressive, and growing, record of publications: Professor Kenneth Quickenden's Boulton Silver and Sheffield Plate (2009), his Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Fine Metalwork DVD (2007) and Professor George Noszlopy's contribution to the 'Public Sculpture in Britain' series: Public Sculpture of Birmingham, including Sutton Coldfield (1998); Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull (2003); Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country (with Fiona Waterhouse: 2005) and Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire (with Fiona Waterhouse: 2010).
The group embraces new members, is interested in the supervision of all periods and areas of the visual arts at MPhil and PhD levels and is keen to welcome new research students.
Research: BIADResearch@bcu.ac.uk
BIAD, Birmingham City University, Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX